Profile

Costas is Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds. He coordinates the Circualr Economy & Resource Recovery network, as part of the Cites University Theme. His research portfolio focuses on innovation for closing the materials loop and recovering energy from secondary resources (wastes). He serves as Vice Chair for ISWA European Group and Vice Chair for the Waste to Energy Resource and Technology Council - UK. Costas is the recipient of many prestigious international awards for his research papers, including the ISWA Publication Award 2015 and 2013, the CIWM James Jacskon Award for 2015, and the ICE Thomas Telford Award for 2014.

He is published in leading academic journals, serves as Associate Editor of Waste Management & Research, and of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, and regularly peer-reviews for other journals (e.g. Environmental Science & Technology, Waste Management, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Habitat International). Costas is a Chartered Waste Manager, registered with relevant professional bodies (CIWM, Institute of Physics).

Responsibilities

Programme Manager, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests

Costas’s active research portfolio spans many aspects of energy and materials recovery, specialising in production and quality assurance of secondary fuels and materials from wastes. With a diverse scientific background, his research vision is to advance the agenda for the sustainable recovery of resources which are currently wasted. To this, he attempts to introduce inter-disciplinary scientific approaches to the handling of waste, and to disseminate results into the ‘real world’ through industrial collaboration. Key areas of expertise are: